Free Republic

NEW ORLEANS, La. - (KRT) - Bernard Dunklin's pills sit next to a baby stroller. Glenn Dominick's legal papers flutter in the breeze. Susan Devlin's medical records are stuck to a water-damaged photo and an elementary school certificate of achievement for Samantha Devlin. "There's shoes, thousands of coolers, cots, clothes, it's all mixed up now," said Kevin Webb, after he dumped a truckload of garbage from the Superdome in a vacant lot a mile from downtown New Orleans. "There were a lot of people packed to leave, but then they couldn't take their stuff with them. It's all toxic now."...

Sep. 9 - South Mississippi counties are scrambling to find space for the mountains of garbage left behind by Hurricane Katrina, some of it so compacted that wood can't be separated from asbestos, propane tanks, sewage, rotting meat and hazardous waste. Rough estimates indicate the six hardest-hit counties may produce more than six times the solid waste generated in the entire state in a single year. Those piles of garbage will likely be around for years. "It's more debris than all the debris companies in the world could handle," said Frank Reddish, manager of the bureau of recovery and mitigation...